I don’t know anything about this band. They got me on their
name alone, so let’s see what they’re up to.
Ephemeralness
Awesome song name. Nothing special in the first bars. Should
I judge immediately? I am partial to sparse female-vocal folk and this looks to
be going that way. There’s a bit of an edge to this like they might break into
Vivan Girls hard rock any minute.
They didn’t.
Full Screen
Well, kind of. This is definitely a “girl power rock it with
confrontational lyrics” gig where the first song was just easing me into it.
This song is a heck of a lot catchier for sure. Guitar solo warning at 1:04. It
only lasted 20 seconds, which is still about 10% of the total song. I need to
start assigning solo/song ratios to determine safe listening levels for the
solo-averse like me. I can’t understand some of the lyrics but if I could I
think maybe they’re funny. There are some annoying laughs or arguments playing
under the last part and it’s a mess.
J Station
I’m thinking the first song was a fake-out. Here’s some hard
snare hits and distorted chords (although the distortion is pretty light). I wish
their voices were a little more melodic – they’re kind of flat and without a
lot of character. ||
I think the song restarted when I came back to it. Yep. I’ll
ride it out. I still want their voices to be more singsong. It would add just
enough to make this stand out from a thousand other bands but so far nothing is
doing that. Not bad, but not remarkable. Second time through didn’t do anything
more for me.
Patience
The song name is telling me to give it some time. This song
opens with “candid” talking. It’s the second time this album has done this
trick and I don’t like it. Better than the answering machine message gimmick,
but not by much. I’d like to think that this song is called “Patience” because
it’s twice as long as all the others and they didn’t think people could stick
out four minutes. This is a “real love” song and it could be better than it is.
I do like the lines “Sometimes when we are walking/I can only mention trees”
but it doesn’t go anywhere. Now that I’m looking up the lyrics to this song
there are really only a handful of lines in the whole thing. So maybe not worth
enduring four minutes of tinny hi-hat cymbals for.
Tenderness
I was going to type something about this song needing more
than one note and by the time I got to it the song was over.
Same
Slow acoustic strumming…back to the first song’s style. I
don’t love it but I like it better than the rockin’ last few. They should do
more of the background “ooooh” vocals on their songs. Even if I got tired of it
at least it would be distinctive. There’s a digital trumpet or something on
here that’s out of place. The song overall is not bad though.
Steal The Lake From The Water
Wow…the album is almost over. I guess that’s what happens
when all your songs but one are only two minutes long. There’s some filter on
the guitar and vocals on this song to make them sound distant and crackly. Do I
think that after the intro they’ll kick in and remove the filter? Yes. Did it
just happen? Yes. Too easy to predict this whole album. They almost discovered
the concept of melody on this song but HAHA JUST KIDDING WE ONLY SING ONE NOTE.
It’s really too bad because there are some neat parts to this song like the
edge to the guitar sound but it all gets buried in Generic Hard Indie Rock
Sound.
Drive Me Home
The filter from the last song stuck around for the acoustic
guitar. The “oooh”s are back. I think I like them best because they
occasionally hit more than one note. There are some layers to this song but by
this point I’m pretty burned out. I could listen to old Liz Phair and Mekons
and have a better time but I don’t do that very often because they’re both pretty
coarse compared to a lot of what I enjoy now. This isn’t throwback music either
though so I don’t know what they want from me.
First Day Of Spring
Sort-of-quiet lead-out song. I forgot it as soon as I
listened to it.
Final score: Two clever names out of five. Not the worst
album in the world but also not much of anything of note. If it had even one
strong element I could advocate for this album but everything was thoroughly
mediocre.
Download links:
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